alice-teacher Alice VR Hardware

[Garth Flint]

Watch out for the Oculus Quest 2.  It requires a Facebook account for
login.  I think K-12 is going to be out for these since most schools block
Facebook.  I was going to get one for our school until I realized that is
going to be a huge issue.  There is probably a work around with the content
filter and firewall but I did not want to deal with it.

Garth Flint
Technology Coordinator
Missoula Catholic Schools
(406)-531-7497


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 10:41 AM Donald Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Bill,
> I have a Rift-S and plan on using it for the foreseeable future…
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
>
> On Sep 30, 2020, at 9:41 AM, Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> I've got some grant money that I need to spend soon and I want to make
> sure that I make the right purchase.
>
> It sounds like for now, the Rift S is still a safe purchase?
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:01 PM Donald Slater via alice-teachers <
> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> William,
>> I checked with the director of the Alice Project, Eric Brown.
>>
>> They are going to stop selling The Rift S because the newest Quest can do
>> everything it can do and more.  If you wanted to connect your desktop (to
>> run the Alice Player, for example) to the Quest there is a link cord that
>> can be purchased.  Eric is not sure if they will start including this link
>> cord with the purchase once the Rift is officially discontinued.  The Alice
>> Player would run over the Link as would any other desktop-only VR apps for
>> the Oculus ecosystem.  We are assuming that since they are planning on
>> continuing to sell the Rift till next year they would also have to support
>> it further into the future than that.
>>
>> Eric has not purchased the Link for his Quest but is planning on doing so
>> to verify there is no issue.  We also hope to support loading content
>> without the link cord in the future.
>>
>> Please let us know if you have any other questions.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Don Slater
>>
>> Alice Project
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> With the announcement of the Oculus Rift S headset being discontinued,
>> what does that mean for a school that wants to purchase a VR headset to be
>> used with Alice 3?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Barnum
>> York Community High School
>> YouTube Channel
>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCECwUQMY-gPknLBgTyE4Hzw>
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